Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:39:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fonts question Message-ID: <1066189171.72030.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.10.15.03.18.32.897331@sremick.net> References: <pan.2003.10.14.07.11.18.12331@sremick.net> <1066116053.32360.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <pan.2003.10.15.03.18.32.897331@sremick.net>
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--=-p9gLSNLDRxV0iDb8Jdp2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:18, Scott I. Remick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > >> I know the page: > >>=20 > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html > >>=20 > >> ...but it doesn't go this deep. > >=20 > > Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. >=20 > Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't miss that section, but I > can't see how it helps me here. Maybe you can let me know what I'm missin= g. >=20 > Going through those instructions: >=20 > I don't have a ~/.fonts/ directory, and I've looked through > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for *[Ll][Uu][Cc]* as well as examined all the > font descriptions in the various font.dir files and found no non-PCF > Lucida font mentioned. >=20 > Tweaking which fonts are anti-aliased seems not the answer as what I read > says that bitmap fonts like PCF cannot be anti-aliased. So the editing of > fonts-conf to control this isn't applicable. (note: that site talks about > editing that file, yet when you open it, it says at the very top to NOT > edit it). >=20 > Running fc-cache -f does not make these vector Lucida fonts visible to > AbiWord. >=20 > Changing the point size at which fonts are anti-aliased, or the spacing, > isn't applicable to my problems. >=20 > And finally, I already have bitstream-vera installed. >=20 > If the answer to my problem (or any of my 3 questions) is indeed on that > web page, then I guess I'm being dense, but I'm not seeing it. Sorry :( Look at the section about modifying local.conf or .fonts.conf to do font family substitution. The example I gave is Helvetica, but you can modify it to work with Lucida as well. The section starts with: "Certain fonts, such as Helvetica, may have a problem when anti-aliased. Usually this manifests itself as a font that seems cut in half vertically. At worst, it may cause applications such as Mozilla to crash. To avoid this, consider adding the following to local.conf:" Joe >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-p9gLSNLDRxV0iDb8Jdp2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/jMFzb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkj4AJ0TMsgwsJ5+8WhejYRiaK+pfAm+zQCdFYdu 2nUV5/5tYaIqQkEw+6fk2mc= =5a2M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-p9gLSNLDRxV0iDb8Jdp2--
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